Sri Lanka inks MoU with Google

Government of Sri Lanka inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Google to launch the Google Loon project in their country. As per the MoU, Google will place 13 high altitude balloons over the island nation to provide the affordable high speed 3G data services to the entire country. It is also expected that this project will provide the free Wi-Fi connectivity across Sri Lanka. Successful implementation of this project will make Sri Lanka the 1st country in the world to have Internet access covering the whole country with the government support.
Google Loon project:

• The Google Loon project is Google’s ambitious research & development (R&D) project with the mission of providing Internet access to rural or remote areas.


• Under this project, Google will install high altitude ‘floating-telecom-tower’ balloons in the sky which will provide full broadband internet coverage.


• These balloons have transceivers which can connect to mobile-phone networks filling gaps in their networks especially in remote areas such as mountains and deserts.
  
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Sri Lanka inks MoU with Google